In church and state alike he prized institutions and the great organs of corporate life; but what he thought of most and cared for and sought after most, was not their mechanism, though on that too he set its value, but the living spirit within the institution.
Morley reflects on Gladstone's prioritization of the spirit within institutions over their structural mechanisms.
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